feelings come, feelings go...

Adorkable Orihime

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:56:03 +0700

Adorkable Orihime

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Wed, 22 May 2013 08:56:50 +0700

paintgatsby: Jordan Baker enjoys destroying the competition...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:53:41 +0700

paintgatsby:

Jordan Baker enjoys destroying the competition when they know her secret.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 08:52:00 +0700

- “Where are you all headed?” - “To visit mom at the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:49:05 +0700

- “Where are you all headed?”

- “To visit mom at the hospital!”

This scenery is ill-suited to Soul Society...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:54:00 +0700

This scenery is ill-suited to Soul Society...

I’m pretty sure Aizen and Gin have more panels where they’re side-by-side than any other...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:49:00 +0700

I’m pretty sure Aizen and Gin have more panels where they’re side-by-side than any other pairs in Bleach.

I never noticed this until making the Aizen/Gin chronicle. At first I thought one post was enough to cover all their scenes, and now I’m afraid three would not suffice.

edenliaothewomb: Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker in Baz...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:33:00 +0700

edenliaothewomb:

Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker in Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby”.

those eyes, they are so beautiful!!!

Q: Bernie, you were always convinced that Sebastian would win the championship. Why was that?

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:29:00 +0700

Q: Bernie, you were always convinced that Sebastian would win the championship. Why was that?
Bernie Ecclestone: Because you can’t hide talent. I try with myself all the time and I can’t! (laughs)

I’m going through Fernando’s old interviews. The man is a wonder to behold ♥

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:23:20 +0700

I’m going through Fernando’s old interviews. The man is a wonder to behold ♥

Pat Symonds, Bob Bell, Rob White and Bradley Lord on Fernando Alonso (Autosport 2006)

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:10:25 +0700

Autosport: What was it like having Fernando in the team, knowing he was going? [...] it didn't change the way that he acted?
PS: I didn't notice a thing.
BL: It relaxed him, if anything. If you see him at the start of the season when he knew he had a lot to deal with, to me he was more relaxed.
Autosport: Do you think he's got a tough job at McLaren?
BB: I think he will find it a strange transition - very different from us. The technical working level will not be a lot different, but the culture at McLaren, certainly his responsibilities on the marketing and PR side - things he may rail against - all the bits he loves! (Laughs)
Autosport: Do you know who his engineer is going to be?
BB: Mark umm...
Autosport: Over the past couple of years, your car has been designed with a rear weight bias, is that true? Is that something that ties in well with Alonso's driving style?
BB: All I can say is that I don't think we've elected to go down a particular way with the design of the car's weight distribution in order to complement Fernando's driving style. I think Fernando's driving style is accommodated more within the set-up parameters.
PS: Exactly. As we were saying earlier about designing cars for different tyres, there's a sort of motor racing myth about designing cars for different drivers - we're simply not that clever. As you develop a car, a driver's input may push things in a certain direction but not something as fundamental as weight distribution. It's an interesting thing about how a driver can adapt to a new car.
Autosport: You seem to be a happy team...
BB: We're the only team to play music in the garage. You don't get that at McLaren.
PS: If you want to be an astronaut, that's the place to go. (Laughter)
PS: I think it's terribly important to have fun while you're working, because we do work hard. I think it's something - I was going to say fostered - but I don't know...
BB: I think it's part of our culture now. And that goes back to the Benetton days.
BL: And Flavio as well.
PS: On his day, he can be one of the funniest people. Absolutely hilarious at times. You guys miss so much of that. There's one little story I'm sure Flavio won't mind repeating. We have had a engineer called Paul Monaghan.
Autosport: Pedals
PS: Yeah, Pedals. And Flavio's not a terribly easy guy to understand. I've worked with him for 17 years, and I think I've got a diploma in Flavio-speak. But a lot of people struggle, and Pedals certainly struggled because Pedals is a terribly polite person. We were on the pit wall in Austria and Flavio mumbled something on the intercom and pedals said, 'I'm terribly sorry, I didn't understand what you said', and Flavio said 'don't worry about it, I didn't understand what I asked'. (Laughter)
Autosport: Was [the ban of mass damper] the low point of the season for you?
BB: Hungary was the low point for me.
PS: I think I'd go along with that.
BB: It was such a dominant performance. But to not complete it was really the most frustrating part.
Autosport: The first lap was amazing.
BL: He just deserved the win. It was like Senna in 1993.
PS: He was very gracious with the team as well.
BL: He was in Monza too.
Autosport: You can see that Fernando is a very emotional guy, but he doesn't articulate that very often. But at Monza and at Suzuka he said he felt isolated. What are your reflections on having a guy like that in the team? (Pause)
BB: Go for it, Pat.
PS: I think generally, when he's in the car, he's quite unemotional. The incident in Hungary this year with [Robert] Doornbos was the only time I can really think he's shown any sign of emotion. Yes, on occasion the finger will go up, but that to me is pretty standard sort of behaviour. Out of the car, I think there were occasions where he didn't express himself particularly well, where he hadn't really though out what he was going to say, and I think the press conference in Japan was an example of that. Flavio and I spent a long while talking to him after that, and I think I fully understood what he meant, but it wasn't at all what he said, and I believe in the guy enough to know what he meant was true. I think he suffered a little bit with that. But I think the only time he really - we were talking earlier about drivers' biggest challenge is beating their teammate - the only time I've seen him get really riled was when Fisi beat him. That really, really got to Alonso, really found that difficult to handle.
Autosport: Any particular occasion?
PS: Indy was a good example.
Autosport: Was it how it looked, he just couldn't get on terms with him?
PS: I believe it was. He's never been good around that circuit. It's the one circuit where he's not magic. He's OK there, but he doesn't have that extra little something.
Autosport: Is that a characteristic of the circuit?
PS: One assumes so. I don't really know what else you can put it down to. Quite what that characteristic is, I don't know. Indy is a circuit where it's very, very easy to over-drive, but Fernando is not a guy who normally over-drives. I really don't know what it is.
Autosport: What was he trying to say in Japan?
PS: I'm not sure really that we should talk too much about that. Certainly not in any detail, but I suppose in a nutshell there was an element of perhaps asking for the Michael Schumacher sort of situation, should everything be sacrificed for him and asking whether that was a better way to go racing.
Autosport: Is that something you've considered?
PS: Many years ago we thought about it. But it's not the way we go racing.
BB: I think the only other memory of mine that springs to mind of him showing emotion in the cockpit was on the slowing down lap in Brazil. That's when it all came home to him, what he had achieved and what the team meant to him. He came across very passionately.
BL: He came over very passionately on the team radio. Articulating what he felt. The year before he was all at sea.
Autosport: Is he a Michael Schumacher-type figure?
BB: There's no doubt he's got enough ability to emulate Michael's achievements. So much will be dependent on things that were outside of his control - what McLaren are able to deliver to him, and what relationship he has with them. When Michael moved to Ferrari, Ross [Brawn], Rory [Byrne], [Nicholas] Tombazis went with him. It was a lot more than just Michael. They all grew up within Ferrari. That isn't going to happen with Fernando going to McLaren.
Autosport: How do you compare Fernando with Michael?
PS: I think the thing that they both showed in abundance was their ability to read a race, and they are both obviously very quick drivers. They're both intelligent people, and they both have this very high understanding of how to make the most from a race - or even more particularly, how to make the most from a championship. When to go for it, when to hang on to things. They show an awful lot of similarities in that respect. Michael is obviously a much more polished character, but he's considerably older, but then you forget how young Fernando actually is. Thinking back to when you were that age and how immature you were - I was, anyway - and I think we were all the same, and it's easy to forget that. And, equally, it is difficult to think back to when Michael was that sort of age and drove for us. Michael has had a big advantage in that he came through the Mercedes training school - that sportscar Mercedes programme, which was incredibly good; it was so much more than just a racing scheme, it really was a programme that we certainly learned a few things from. And I think that helped Michael at that age and added polish to him. But they certainly have a lot more similarities than differences.
Autosport: Is Fernando a better driver now than in 2003?
PS: He's got a lot more confidence. Is he a better driver? I don't think he's learned how to make a car go around a corner any quicker, but I think his racecraft has continued to improve as his confidence increased.
Autosport: Any weaknesses?
PS: A few we might list for next year. (giggles)
RW: He's got an incredible bandwidth. He's got the capacity to drive the car extraordinarily quickly, using just a fraction of his mental capacity, which means he's able to manage the race, understand what's going on around him, and his serenity in the car sometimes is quite extraordinary.
PS: We saw that the first year he drove for us, in Canada. He set fastest lap of the race and was talking all the way around that lap - well 75 per cent of that lap he was chattering. That's always a pretty good sign.
BL: You never get him on the radio when he's accelerating hard, he only gets on it in slow corners, when he knows people can hear him.
PS: When we have our pre-briefs in the morning, he sits there, and at first you think the guy isn't listening. But he absolutely takes everything in. And then afterwards he'll question it. He really does take things in, and if you ask him on any day about certain situations and what you have to do in the car - like if a clutch fails and you have to press this button or do this and do that - he'll just rattle it off.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:07 +0700

babybacalling: During the filming of Dark Passage, Lauren...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:59:18 +0700

babybacalling:

During the filming of Dark Passage, Lauren Bacall had hurt the feelings of cameraman, Sid Hickox after of a comment made about the way he filmed one of the scenes. So director Delmer Daves decided to show Bacall that she knew less about film making than she was beginning to believe.

“I decided to teach Betty a lesson. We lined up for her last scene in the film- one in which Bogie is suposed to telephone her from a bus depot and she gets the call in her apartment. Since it was an important scene, she was anticipating a big close-up, but I told her we were going to photograph her from the back so that the audience could imagine what was going on in her mind. ‘With my back to the camera?’ she said. Tears came into her eyes, but she was a great sport about it and rehearsed it, even though her voice was trembling and she was fighting to hold back the tears. That broke me up and I relented. ‘For God’s sake, Betty, we’re lit for the front,’ I told her . ‘I just wanted to teach you a lesson because you were so cruel to Sid’ ‘I know I was.’ Tears started to come into her eyes, which was just perfect, and that’s how we shot the scene. A few minutes later Bogie came on the set. He saw her sobbing and followed her to her dressing room. When it was time for him to come on set, he had on his great Bogie face- no emotion. Usually, he was a one-take actor, but this time he kept blowing his lines and apologizing. We finally got the scene after eight takes and Bogie came over and said ‘I’m sorry about letting you down but you know what was bothering me. Betty told me what happened, and the kid can still break me up. But I think you did the right thing. Maybe she was getting a bit too big in the britches.’ “

-Delmer Daves, director of Dark Passage.

Meggie: But getting back to what we were saying, dear girl, in spite of your neat effort to change the subject, what’s wrong with marriage?

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:43:00 +0700

Meggie: But getting back to what we were saying, dear girl, in spite of your neat effort to change the subject, what’s wrong with marriage?
Justine: Mum! Really! You’re a fine one to ask that, I must say.
Meggie: Don’t be impertinent, even if you are a ripe old seventeen.
Justine: Isn’t it odd? The minute one ventures onto strictly parental territory, one becomes impertinent. I just said: You’re a fine one to ask. Perfectly true, dammit! I’m not necessarily implying you’re a failure, or a sinner, or worse. Actually I think you’ve shown remarkable good sense, dispensing with your husband. What have you needed one for? There’s been tons of male influence for your children with the Unks around, you’ve got enough money to live on. I agree with you! Marriage is for the birds.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 09:20:03 +0700

deforest: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall between rehearsals...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:09:16 +0700

deforest:

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall between rehearsals for a 1946 Lux Radio Theater adaptation of To Have and Have Not, in which both actors revisited their original screen roles.

carmidoll: Fan Bingbing at Cannes

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:08:10 +0700

carmidoll:

Fan Bingbing at Cannes

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Tue, 21 May 2013 09:07:29 +0700

Marion Cotillard| 66th Cannes Film Festival premiere of Blood...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:03:01 +0700

Marion Cotillard| 66th Cannes Film Festival premiere of Blood Ties (20 May 2013)